The AI industry is teetering on the edge of a reckoning, driven by unsustainable costs, executive cargo cult behavior, and a complete lack of strategic planning. As enterprises begin paying real token-by-token costs and open source models like GLM 5.2 threaten the dominance of OpenAI and
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